Spam assassin timeouts

[vinayan KP]

Dear Mr. Glenn and Ram

Thank you very much for your mail.  Sorry for the late response as I
could do as you said only today as I was away for some personal
reasons.

I stopped the MailScanner and spamassassing and removed the bayes_seen
file and restarted the MailScanner and spamassassin services.

I am not an expert but just a beginer with linux with only some 15
months experience. This Mailscanner system (which receives mails from
outside and forwards them to our mailserver) was installed by a third
party who stopped his business and could not get any help them.   Hope
it will now start catching all the spam mails as it used to earlier
and tag them.

Regards
Vinu



On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/12/10 Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com>:
>> 2008/12/10 vinayan KP <mailwatch.kp at gmail.com>:
>>> Dear Ram,
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for your mail.  I learned linux just recently I am
>>> not an expert.  I normally used to try things whenever I get time but
>>> now I hardly have any time these days to sit and feel dont have enough
>>> knowledge to fix this problem.  A third party installed and configured
>>> mailscanner for us couple of years back but that company does not
>>> exist anymore. Hope you would be able to help me out.
>>>
>>> The following are the size of bayes file.  Are thse alright? The
>>> bayes_seen file is too large but it was like this for a long time and
>>> was working alright.
>>>
>>> -rw-------  1 root root 9.4K Dec 10 14:29 bayes_journal
>>> -rw-rw-rw-  1 root root 5.7K Dec 10 14:29 bayes.mutex
>>> -rw-------  1 root root 167M Dec 10 14:26 bayes_seen
>>> -rw-------  1 root root 9.7M Dec 10 14:28 bayes_toks
>>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Dec  9 10:35 bayes_toks.expire10686
>>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Dec 10 00:12 bayes_toks.expire11495
>>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Dec  8 19:22 bayes_toks.expire11824
>>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Dec  8 20:40 bayes_toks.expire13768
>>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Dec 10 07:48 bayes_toks.expire28490
>>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Dec  7 21:22 bayes_toks.expire31832
>>> -rw-------  1 root root    0 Dec  2 04:04 __db.bayes_toks.expire12682
>>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Nov 27 18:58 __db.bayes_toks.expire14247
>>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Sep  6 06:22 __db.bayes_toks.expire15605
>>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Nov 14 14:38 __db.bayes_toks.expire15684
>>> -rw-------  1 root root 4.0K Sep  2 07:48 __db.bayes_toks.expire1745
>>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Dec  2 08:39 __db.bayes_toks.expire20880
>>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Dec  6 00:18 __db.bayes_toks.expire23304
>>> -rw-------  1 root root    0 Dec  4 16:39 __db.bayes_toks.expire23851
>>> -rw-------  1 root root    0 Oct 26 19:52 __db.bayes_toks.expire24361
>>> -rw-------  1 root root    0 Sep  2 04:52 __db.bayes_toks.expire29096
>>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Nov 11 17:37 __db.bayes_toks.expire30758
>>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Oct 23 18:31 __db.bayes_toks.expire31745
>>> -rw-------  1 root root 4.0K Dec  9 05:28 __db.bayes_toks.expire32018
>>> -rw-------  1 root root    0 Nov 21 04:07 __db.bayes_toks.expire32087
>>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Dec  5 15:17 __db.bayes_toks.expire3656
>>> -rw-------  1 root root    0 Dec  4 05:45 __db.bayes_toks.expire5747
>>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Oct 22 16:03 __db.bayes_toks.expire7440
>>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Nov 26 16:21 __db.bayes_toks.expire7458
>>> -rw-------  1 root root    0 Sep 18 00:39 __db.bayes_toks.expire9575
>>> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1.5K Dec  8 13:23 user_prefs
>>>
>> (snip)
>
> BTW... Safest is to start these operations after shutting MailScanner down.
>
>> This is classic... You have a huge seen file there, and a load of
>> expire files from unsuccessful expire runs. Remove the seen file as
>> well as all the expire files, then do a manual expire... Consider
>> configuring your bayes for manual expire only. Also consider
>> increasing the SA timeout value rather much ... in MailScanner.conf.
>> MS will rudely cut off some SA operations otherwise. Exactly what you
>> need, as well as where depend on your circumstances, so I'll refrain
>> from giving any hard numbers.
>> Removing the bayes_seen file will affect your ability to unlearn
>> messages previously learnt, but ... that is likely something you can
>> live with temporarily.
>>
>> As Ram says, this has been covered numerous times (and all the other
>> reasons for SA to time out:-) on this list... and I'm almost certain
>> you can find pertinent information in the wiki/maq as well.
>>
>> Cheers
>> --
>> -- Glenn
>> email: glenn < dot > steen < at > gmail < dot > com
>> work: glenn < dot > steen < at > ap1 < dot > se
>>
>
>
>
> --
> -- Glenn
> email: glenn < dot > steen < at > gmail < dot > com
> work: glenn < dot > steen < at > ap1 < dot > se
> --
> MailScanner mailing list
> mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner
>
> Before posting, read http://wiki.mailscanner.info/posting
>
> Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!
>